Tag: unschooling

Worldschooling with Andrea and Lean – Episode 175

by Kurt Robinson on September 8, 2017 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Learning about the world by travelling through it

Many modern schools are modelled after a military model – stand in a muster, follow instructions, respond to the bells. A student who doesn’t feel like being militarised – which is probably most of them – can be seen as a “problem child”, but for people who celebrate creativity, independent thought, and self-expression, that child is seen as a genuine free spirit.

People are starting to realise that these outdated systems don’t serve us or the children any longer, and they’re looking for alternatives, such as “worldschooling”, taking their kids on a family gap year to explore and find ways to learn and socialise in the real world. Some decide to never go home again.

In this episode, Kurt interviews Andrea and Lean, a mother and son who are worldschoolers and have been travelling the Maldives, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia for five months, discovering new aspects of themselves, learning English, and facing the challenges that come with it. Join us on another globe-trotting episode of… The Paradise Paradox!

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Worldschooling – the world travel family

Ka Sundance & the Sundance family

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Best Bits – Carey Giudici: Practical aspects of social media education

by Kurt Robinson on May 5, 2017 in Best Bits • 0 Comments

Carey Giudici explains how his idea for a system of social media based mentorship will work in practical terms.

Best Bits – Carey Giudici: SMILE Background

by Kurt Robinson on April 23, 2017 in Best Bits • 0 Comments

Carey Giudici explains the background behind his open source education project “SMILE”. Read more →

Open-Source Education: Carey Giudici – Episode 161

by Kurt Robinson on April 18, 2017 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Decentralised micro-education for future leaders

Millions of children around the world are aware to some extent of one specific truth – that schools no longer teach what is relevant to them, and the structure of schooling doesn’t serve them. Many modern schools are built around the Prussian model – a military model, which in many cases, demands compliance above all else, and secondly, emphasises the memorisation of facts. Once upon a time, this was beneficial in certain ways, preparing workers for the monotony of factory jobs in the industrial era. Now that era has passed, and with the age of automation upon us, it becomes increasingly obvious that learning to be a human robot not only won’t help students thrive – it will barely allow them to survive.

Carey Giudici is an editor and writer who realised that there were paths to knowledge as yet unexplored, and one way to lead children along the path of self-knowledge was by giving personality tests to them, and connecting them with mentors, experts with similar personality traits around the world who can guide them.

In this interview, Carey tells us about how this system of education, which he calls SMILE, might function, how it already is beginning to function, and how it will help young people with high levels of stress, frustration, and confusion in schools that don’t teach them to become leaders.

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Episode 42 – School Sucks

by Kurt Robinson on June 24, 2015 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Do you remember your school days? If you’re like most people, you don’t reflect on the past too much. You could go through your life not winding your mind back to your time in a very strange place, a very different place. Depending on which country you grew up in, perhaps you had to go to school – maybe you were coerced into going to school. Maybe it was made clear to you that there just wasn’t any other choice. You might have gone through 10 or 13 years of your life, going to school every day without even questioning why you were doing it.

This was a place where you were going every weekday, where other people were forced to go too. If you had the choice, you might not have been in the proximity of these people at all. Caged wolves will attempt to dominate one another, using violence. If we put children in a cage, the results are not surprising.
When a teacher stands in front of a class and talks, the message isn’t so hard to determine. They might teach science, history, maths, or they might tell a child directly “You are worthless. You will amount to nothing.” Think back. Do you remember some variation of this from your “education”?

However, even if a teacher doesn’t directly insult the students, there is a meta-communication which runs right through the system. Many modern schools, especially public school, are still based on a military model. I tell you what to do, and you do it. If you don’t do what I tell you, you are disobedient, you are a bad kid, you shall be punished. If you survive this system with a capability for independent thought, you are the exception, not the rule.

How does schooling affect the way we think, for better or worse? Is it possible that you had some traumatic experiences there, that caused some mental scar tissue which may never completely heal? Have you forgotten so absolutely, that you would be willing to put your own children through the same thing? Let’s dive into these muddy waters of questions in the next exciting chapter of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

Radical Unschooling – A Revolution Has Begun-Revised Edition by Dayna Martin
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition by John Taylor Gatto
In the Absence of Fathers – A Story of Elephants and Men
Unschooling and Freedom Parenting with Dayna Martin
Who The HELL Are These People? with John Taylor Gatto
Pedro Kumamoto makes history with shoestring campaign and win in Mexico
Jeff Berwick on Emancipated Human

Episode 14 – To The Moon!

by Kurt Robinson on February 18, 2015 in Podcast • 0 Comments

In this episode, we broach the subject of everyone’s favourite lifeless rock, the moon. We discuss the Apollo missions, what evidence there is that humans have walked on the moon, faked or real moon photos, the black sun, front projection, Stanley Kubrick, Neil Degrasse Tyson, the greatest achievements of humanity, menstruation, the moon in ancient cultures, Maurice Cotterel, the effect of the lunar cycle on moods and energy, self-awareness, unschooling, remote viewing, Ingo Swann, the face in Cydonia, predictive programming, Edgar Cayce, David Wilcock, and the true colours of Mars.

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